ANT-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Guanine, Down Syndrome, Cytosine
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Homunculus: a tiny full formed human, that is believed to be present in the. Blending inheritance: the idea that you would get traits from each parent that would blend together to form the individual. Prokaryotic: those that are relatively simple life forms that do not have a nucleus. Eukaryotic: cells in life forms that have a nucleus. Somatic cells: responsible for making up the body tissues. Composed of 2 chains of nucleotides (sugar + phosphate + base) Base-pair specificity: the bases bind to each other in a specific pattern) Replication is the ability of dna to copy its self (happens for development, growth, maintenance, and repair). Nucleus of every cell (except red blood cells) Composed of 1000s of genes; billions of base pairs. Homoplasmic: nuclear dna is the same in every cell. Heteroplasmic: doesn"t not have to be identical in different cells or within the same cell inherited from the ovum (mother)
